As always, I continue to bring you only great news this week. Well, firstly, Condoleezza Rice, having visited Moscow, gave an exclusive interview to the Ekho Moskvy radio station, and addressed listeners in good Russian. She complained about the lack of practice and said that when she returned to Washington, she would practice Russian more regularly.

70 lashes for talking on a cell phone One of the ships in Saudi Arabia sentenced an army officer to a rather serious punishment for talking on a mobile phone in the cabin of an airliner. The military man was repeatedly warned over the loudspeaker by the aircraft crew, but did not pay any attention to these calls.

Last weekend, the professional holiday was celebrated by all those whose profession is related to the railway. And the day before, on August 3, the gala evening took place on the square of three stations, in the Central Children's Palace of Culture. Minister of the Ministry of Railways Nikolai Aksenenko congratulated his colleagues and guests.

The Interlocutor correspondent received new prophecies from Nostradamus We have long been accustomed to being in the neighborhood of the unknown and unknown. As scientists officially declare, human clones will soon appear, and human organs will begin to be replaced with microcircuits and chips.

On August 15, 1990, Viktor Tsoi died at the age of 28. He is remembered to this day - the house with the stoker, which briefly became the refuge of a rock star, is covered up to the third floor with numerous appeals to Victor, and the most devoted admirers are on duty at his grave around the clock. Between training sessions I planted “Partagas” In 1982, on the train, Viktor Tsoi and Alexey Rybin sang several songs to Boris Grebenshchikov.

Last week, director Viktor Merezhko suffered from car thieves who coveted his Volkswagen Golf. “This is some kind of fatal coincidence,” Viktor Ivanovich told Interlocutor. — I locked my car in the garage all the time. But then he returned home late, was tired, and so he left the Golf under the windows of his house. Along with Viktor Ivanovich’s car, documents and two new umbrellas were taken away.

Shandybin: you won’t scare me with prison Deputy Shandybin apparently wanted to go to jail. His statement that “the enemy flag is flying over the Kremlin” cannot be explained in any other way. If not for parliamentary immunity, the talker would have faced three years in prison for insulting state symbols. “It’s just amazing that he wasn’t even deprived of a word for this,” Mikhail Rokitsky, deputy, told Interlocutor. Chairman of the Ethics Commission in the State Duma.

“Police” trials continue in Rostov-on-Don. In “Interlocutor” No. 29 for this year, we began this topic with a story about a gang, half of which consisted of cops. This time, patrol sergeants are in the dock. It’s a paradox, but the court’s verdict did not satisfy either the prosecutor or the defense. The first demands a more severe punishment, the second advocates suspended sentences...